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Lighten up about Larry, he's only a cartoon croc

Ryan Culley Groton

Publication: The Day

Published 01/28/2010 12:00 AM
Updated 01/28/2010 02:08 AM

This letter is in response to the letter titled "Insulting cartoon bad for children," published Jan. 25.

"Pearls Before Swine" isn't anymore uneducational than most comics. For example, "Dilbert" portrays office workers as lazy and sarcastic. "Beetle Bailey" teaches children that our military is full of buffoonish goof-offs. Even a classic strip like "Peanuts" has Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown as he attempts to kick it. Obviously, these comic strips are not tutorials for acceptable moral behavior.

Human beings are destroying the planet and poverty is commonplace worldwide. However, the letter writer is concerned about the impact of "Larry's" grammatical issues. I guess the only solution is to flip to "Family Circus" so that civilization can be saved.

Or we could just lighten up a bit.

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